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2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010

Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene Fornés. To [...]

Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School

Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street — Room 510
New York, NY

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY.

Merging the creative and the critical, this event will feature [...]

Escapology: Feeling the Art of Speculative Fiction

February 8, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM

Katie Brewer Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, NYU

The “more speculative genres,” as Junot Diaz calls them, such as science fiction and fantasy continue to enthusiastically capture the attention and interest of the American public. What precisely, is the draw that such stories hold for mass consumers, and more specifically why [...]

Modernism’s Gifts: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Novel

Rebecca Colesworthy, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, NYU

December 7, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709
between University Place and Broadway
wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place between 11th & 12th Streets

This talk proposes a connection between the “modernist turn” in Anglo-American literature and the “return” [...]

The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: HORTENSE SPILLERS

November 4th, Wednesday
7:00 PM

The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
between 34th & 35th Streets

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Concentration and co-sponsored by IRADAC, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the PhD Program in English

Inaugurated by Hortense Spillers, the Lorde/Hemphill lecture commemorates the lives of the American poets [...]